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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780374529673
ISBN: 0374529671
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: April 15, 2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: March 31, 2005
Sales Rank: 813253
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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'Malamud's vision is personal, original, and almost wholly unrelated to the most characteristic or normative Jewish thought and tradition. As for Malamud's style, it too is a perculiar (and dazzling) invention.' --Harold Bloom
God's Grace (1982), Bernard Malamud's last novel, is a modern-day dystopian fantasy, set in a time after a thermonuclear war prompts a second flood---and, as such, a radical departure from most of Malamud's previous fiction. The novel's protagonist is paleolosist Calvin Cohn, who had been attending to his work at the bottom of the ocean when the Devastation struck, and who alone survived. This rabbi's son--a 'marginal error'--finds himself shipwrecked with an experimental chimpanzee capable of speech, to whom he gives the name Buz. Soon other creatures appear on their island--baboons, chimps, five apes, and a lone gorilla. Cohn works hard to make it possible for God to love His creation again, and his hopes increase as he experiences the unknown and the unforeseen in this strange new world.
With God's Grace, Malamud took a great leap and a great risk---and these paid off. The novel's fresh and pervasive humor, narrative ingenuity, and tragic sense of the human condition make it one of Malamud's most extraordinary books.
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Rating:  - God's Grace
Extraordinary in it's humor, and provoking thought about God's involvement in the world order and everyday matters.
Rating: - Not Malamud's greatest, but visionary and ambitious
Bernard Malamud had a varied and interesting writing career. From Yakov Bok in the award winning "The Fixer" to the struggling artist Fidelman in "Pictures of Fidelman", to baseballer Roy Hobbs in "The Natural", he has painted portraits of a wide range of fascinating people, mostly Jewish men in middle age, faced with moral or ethical crises. Probably my favorite is Henry Lesser from "The Tenants", but Calvin Cohn in this novel comes in close. He is a pretty complex guy, in fact the last man left ... Read More
Rating: - Human nature on trial
Calvin Cohn, a Jewish paleontologist, son of a rabbi, is the only human survivor of a thermonuclear disaster. He has to content himself with the company of a few chimps and baboons. God is responsible for this second flood and He blames humans for destroying nature; Cohn has survived due to an error and he is let to live and make the best he can. In this scenario of desolation, Cohn becomes a god-like creature, he believes he can recreate the world, impose a new social order based on high moral ... Read More
Rating: - The consequences of free will
In a thermonuclear war, the "Djanks" and "Druzhkies" destroy themselves, and all other inhabitants of the earth. Calvin Cohn, a paleologist who is in a diving bell off a research vessel at the time of the disaster, miraculously survives.
He finds that another being is aboard the research ship-a chimpanzee whom he calls "Buz." The two of them end up on a tropical island, where Cohn finds that Buz has a couple of electric wires protruding from his throat-and when Cohn connects them, the chimp ... Read More
Rating: - A truly beautiful, exceptionally moving book
There's a staggering range of emotion here: from apocalyptic doom, to fearful survival, to irascible and choleric comedy, to wrenching simplicity of striving towards good, and bringing about a cataclysm. Humanity or, better still, human history personified... God's Grace is like Swift's Gulliver's travels: simple enough to captivate a casual reader, deep enough to drown a philosopher. A moving masterpiece.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780374529673
ISBN: 0374529671
Label: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Manufacturer: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: April 15, 2005
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date: March 31, 2005
Sales Rank: 813253
Studio: Farrar, Straus and Giroux